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Show Tjfae AMERICAN (Copy for This Pepartmenl Supplied by th American Legion News Service.) HEADS COMMITTEE ON WORLD PEACE Thomas Amory Lee of Topekn. Kan., was one of the many high-spirited Americans of mature age who served with the French army in the early stages of the war until the United States threw down the gauntlet in April, 1917. In the fall and winter of 1917 he served with the Foyer du Soldat on the Champagne front and saw strenuous strenu-ous service in that sanguinary conflict. Shortly thereafter he enlisted as a private in the Thirty-second regiment of French artillery and remained with that unit until he decided that service with his own countrymen was needful. need-ful. Thereupon he enlisted in the Twenty-sixth American regiment, a part of the famous First division, and remained with that outfit until after the armistice. Injured at Cantigny early In 1918, he still found the strength to rejoin his" outfit in time to participate In the battle of Solssons. where he was wounded. ! Thomas Amory Lee. 1 After his discharge at Camp Devens. he returned to Topeka to resume hia practice of law, but was drafted by the ex-soldiers of his state to represent them at the St. Louie caucus of the American Legion, not then named or organized. He organized Capital post of Topeka, continued in Legion service until elected, elect-ed, department commander of Kansas for 1920-1921. Since then he has been appointed one of the directors of the American Legion Weekly, the official publication of the Legion. In 1924, at the national convention at St. Paul, he was selected by reason of his wide studies along international lines, to head a committee on world peace. It . is his duty to select the most outstanding out-standing and meritorious world peace plans presented for judgment either here or abroad, study them carefully as to their feasibility and report at the Omaha convention with his recommendations recommen-dations as to the best one for the Legion to endorse. A scholar, a writer of profound articles, arti-cles, and a successful lawyer, Thomas Amory Lee has devoted much of his time to developing the Legion along the Ideals of service enunciated in Paris and at St. Louis. He was born in Topeka in 1889, which makes him forty-six years old. After graduation from the Kemper Military school, Kansas university, he studied at Harvard Law school and then returned to Topeka to practice. He has traveled extensively abroad and in 1924 represented the American Legion as a delegate to the Interallied War Veterans' association congress in London.' He is also a member of the Legion's Permanent Commission on Foreign Relations. ' |